28: Defense against the dark art of scare-mongering




15 Credibility Street show

Summary: This episode focuses on how the media and certain people present news in a way that scares people about relatively non-dangerous things like tainted Halloween candy and being abducted by Bigfoot in a National Park. Visit us at 15CredibilityStreet.com. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/30/we-really-need-to-stop-freaking-out-over-halloween-marijuana-candy/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/needle-halloween-candy-fredericton-1.4381539 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematidrosis https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/24/the-rare-case-of-a-woman-who-stunned-doctors-in-italy-by-sweating-blood-from-her-face/ https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyjvdx/missing-persons-national-parks-paranormal-bigfoot-aliens